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He’s Talking
by Nicholas Wright
What would you do if you were caught and interrogated? Would you betray your friends? He’s Talking is a fact-based fiction about an anti-racist bombing group in apartheid South Africa. Luke, the leader, is seized and questioned. Every word he speaks will have a lifelong effect on his young friends and on himself. One year later, they all meet up. Or some of them do. Or only a few. It all depends on whether he talked… or not.
Nicholas Wright’s plays include, at the National, The Reporter, Vincent in Brixton (Olivier Award for Best New Play) and Mrs Klein; Treetops and One Fine Day at Riverside Studios; The Gorky Brigade at the Royal Court; The Crimes of Vautrin for Joint Stock; The Custom of the Country and The Desert Air for the RSC, and Cressida for the Almeida. His adaptations include His Dark Materials, Thérèse Raquin, Three Sisters and John Gabriel Borkman for the National, and Naked and Lulu for the Almeida, as well as novels for the screen. His books include 99 Plays and Changing Stages, which was cowritten with Richard Eyre.
Performed by TV Workshop Nottingham
The search for identity pulses through New Connections 2008: for acceptance and survival in modern Britain, for racial equality in 1960s South Africa, by deception in magical allotments, during white-out in a snow blizzard, through parenting, through faith, or by comic mistakes of social networking.
He’s Talking finished on: 4 July 2008
